MaximumAustin

MaximumAustin

@maximumaustin.bsky.social

Creator. Nerd. Admirer of the weird and misunderstood. I try to make things on the internet. 33. Bisexual. (He/Him). American. #BLM #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ActuallyAutistic

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I will give my respect to almost anyone who directed a film/ran a show to the janitors that cleaned the studios into the hours of the night at WBD, Paramount, CN and Nickelodeon before I acknowledge Zaslav and the higher ups that cashed out & did NOTHING for the workers/artists under them.

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Check this out if you want to read a bunch of ex-journalists' thoughts on the current (gestures to the smoking crater) state of things, and also me being very very nostalgic about the games magazine era

Aftermath@aftermath.site

When losing a job means losing a career: what comes next for laid off games journalists? aftermath.site/aftermath-game...

Read the story years ago. These final panels to the very end of the issue really feel like you were slowly leading into the point where Superhero comics (and Spider-Man) changed forever. It must have been INSANE reading this in 1973, then realizing you have to wait for the next issue.

Bronze Age Babies@bronzeagebabies.bsky.social

JG Jones - homaging the work of Gerry Conway, Gil Kane, John Romita, and Tony Mortellaro in Amazing Spider-Man 121 (1973), on the cover of The Death of Gwen Stacy trade paperback (second printing, 2001).

The Cat and The Hat (2003), even though Myers himself can be blamed for what remained in the final film. It makes me ask “Why?” and “Why in a Dr. Seuss movie?” Its intriguing.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social

Name a bad film who's production you find fascinating

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R.I.P. to Eric Bauza Out of all the actors who voiced the rabbit, you were the one who came the closest to Mel's original voice. You should've been around for 40 more years to voice him.

I feel bad for both of them. Yeah, the answers are limitless, but that’s the point. There’s no wrong answers to this prompt. We chose to share what makes us special. That’s a distinct human feeling.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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From BoJack Horseman: "When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social

Name a Quote from a Netflix or HBO Show.

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Replying to @jessiegender.bsky.social

This isn’t doomerism, nor an argument against voting or fighting GOP voter suppression. Voting can materially improve lives, or at least keep them from getting worse. So please, vote. But don’t mistake the temporary relief of winning an election for the work of building a better world.

Most women and minority characters in popular fiction tbh In the meta, “as fictional characters designed for a story in our real world” sense. “Not having bs criticisms unfairly thrown at them by out-of-touch fans and commentators” would be better, yes.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social

Name a character who deserved better.

News to me. This is a cause for concern for all that use META platforms, not just publishers.

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk

Publishers have been urged to delete Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram accounts before a T&Cs change kicks in. 'Shameless land grab' would see Meta claim AI rights for everything publishers produce (whether it is on Meta platforms or not). pressgazette.co.uk/news/faceboo...

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"what if, hear me out, you got to play as the coolest character of all time" "sounds awful, cancel it"

Kotaku@kotaku.com

Put Blade in the bag and nobody gets hurt! https://kotaku.com/arkane-devs-say-blade-is-nearly-finished-but-if-it-cant-find-a-buyer-soon-the-studio-will-close-2000749096

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I'm telling you dude it's the age of loser dipshits. This whole tech sector, from the chatbots to the art generation to the voices, is built on this idea that being good at stuff is stupid and lame and somehow by not getting to enjoy the same praise skilled people do you are being denied or slighted

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Resharing this, because here's a handy link to throw at anyone who says that they use genAI because other options are "hard."

Matt Round@mattround.com

A non-AI tool for making gig posters (via webcurios) www.desloppify.diy

I’m an old enough Sonic the Hedgehog fan to remember dabbling with the Genesis/MD ones (probably a pack-in like Sonic 1 or 2). Also watched and rented VHS tapes of AoStH, Sonic SatAM and that OVA duology ADV released as “The Movie.” Played Sonic Adventure 1+2 on GameCube and became a lifelong fan.

The first Sonic Advance was also an early Sonic game for me. Learned what an Echidna was thanks to the inclusion of Knuckles in that one. I mentioned Sonic coming off of video game memories because I thought it was worth sharing. Exposed to the series early, yet didn’t have a Dreamcast.

Give me your ships based on Spider-Man supporting characters and vampires from the DARKSTALKERS series. We have Spider-Man X Morrigan. I just found out that Miles Morales X Lilith is a popular one. Uhhhh, Demitri Maximoff and Spider-Gwen? Jedah and Spider-Girl? Wait…

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Humble Bundle's new Double Fine bundle features 11 games from the publisher - including Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, and more - that you can add to your Steam library for just $8. https://bit.ly/3WjvLKc

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There is something so soul crushing about creating art that pushes the needle in the games industry, only to be thanked by using the capital gained from said art to push the ones who created it out of a job.

Aftermath@aftermath.site

Electronic Arts closing BioWare, laying off hundreds: aftermath.site/electronic-art...

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it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

For a while, I brought up the fact that George Carlin narrated for Thomas The Tank Engine to my Boomer/GenX Dad and his wife. Which is funny for me, because my dad has been a conservative, right-wing Christian for all of MY adult life. I don’t bring it up anymore because I cut him out of my life.

Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social

We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.

Both of MY PARENTS (long since divorced) were born in 1965. From what I understand , that year is a common point to distinguish the two generations. I saw them as younger boomers, but these generational labels don’t mold persons, they do. My mom fuckin’ kicks ass btw.